Redcell Vitamins

[pdpbison]

Originally Posted by 1st Landing Lof

I have read the label on Red Cell and I can not find where it says to refrigerate after opening. I have been using it for 5 months and use 1 tsp per 1/2 gallon of water. But I surely do not want to use spoiled Red Cell. Can someone please tell me why to refrigerate? And why doesn't it say it on the label?

Bill

Any Solution already mixed, for any sort of Vitamins, should be used that day, or used up by next day at longest, or that could 'spoil' since it would be nutritive to airborne Yeasts and Bacteria.


Any dry Vitamin powders should be kept so as little air as possible can get to them, and, refrigerating would be ideal since the powder would deteroirate on absorbing Oxygen, and or by Heat or Light getting to it...this just generally applies to anything of this sort.


Phil
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[1st Landing Lof]

Originally Posted by Happy

Hi All, Just remember that Horse Red Cell that we use for the Pigeons should be Refrigerated after opening....... Good Stuff & used by me & many for decades...... Happy

pdpbison

I know after you mix it, but they are saying after opening. It doesn't say refrigerate after opening. I was wondering if soneone read something that I haven't seen about using Red Cell.

Bill

[Lovebirds]

The only "good" reason I can give you for keeping it in the fridge, is because that's what I was told and I figure it can't hurt. Now having said that.........it does make you wonder about people who have horses and use this stuff. Do they have a fridge in the horse barn? Do the keep it in the fridge in the house? Where do THEY keep it? I don't know actually............I've got a small fridge in my loft and that's where I keep mine. Whether it actually NEEDS to be kept there........I honestly can't tell you. I just do.

[spirit wings]

I think when you use it for horses it goes alot quicker because you use alot more, but if you use only a small amount the hole jug will last a loooong time, that is why it may be good to put it in the fridge, the b vitamin also gets less potent in sunlight, but I think the jug is solid so no sun can get to it.

[1st Landing Lof]

Originally Posted by Lovebirds

The only "good" reason I can give you for keeping it in the fridge, is because that's what I was told and I figure it can't hurt. Now having said that.........it does make you wonder about people who have horses and use this stuff. Do they have a fridge in the horse barn? Do the keep it in the fridge in the house? Where do THEY keep it? I don't know actually............I've got a small fridge in my loft and that's where I keep mine. Whether it actually NEEDS to be kept there........I honestly can't tell you. I just do.

Gotcha, just thought I was doing something wrong that would hurt my birds. Actually I mix it 50/50 with water and then feed it with a 1 tsp eye dropper right into there 2 qt. waterer. I found if you mix it with water first it will mix more easier when I shoot it into the water with the eye dropper. That stuff hangs together and when used straight it doesn't want to mix in well.

Bill

[Lovebirds]

Originally Posted by 1st Landing Lof

Gotcha, just thought I was doing something wrong that would hurt my birds. Actually I mix it 50/50 with water and then feed it with a 1 tsp eye dropper right into there 2 qt. waterer. I found if you mix it with water first it will mix more easier when I shoot it into the water with the eye dropper. That stuff hangs together and when used straight it doesn't want to mix in well.

Bill

If yours isn't mixing well, I would make sure that it's NOT spoiled or something. Mine mixes just fine. Put 1/2 teaspoon in a half gallon milk jug, shake a couple of times, and it's mixed. No problems. "hanging together" doesn't sound quite right to me.

[1st Landing Lof]

Originally Posted by Lovebirds

If yours isn't mixing well, I would make sure that it's NOT spoiled or something. Mine mixes just fine. Put 1/2 teaspoon in a half gallon milk jug, shake a couple of times, and it's mixed. No problems. "hanging together" doesn't sound quite right to me.

Mine also mixes if you put it into a gallon jug and shake it, but if you mix it first you don't have to shake it. It blends in and mixes with out picking up the water container.

[Lovebirds]

Originally Posted by 1st Landing Lof

Mine also mixes if you put it into a gallon jug and shake it, but if you mix it first you don't have to shake it. It blends in and mixes with out picking up the water container.

OK. Got cha.

[billymac]

Bill,
I have used Red Cell for over 20 years, Mixing one tablespoon per gallon. I have never refrigerated it..(kept at room temp) I used it raising English Bugerigars and Lady gouldian finches as well...

[MaryOfExeter]

I don't think it's necessary to refridgerate it after opening (or it'd probably say so on the bottle), but I think just about any supplements like that should be to get the best results out of them for a longer period of time. I've heard before to use a tablespoon per gallon. So I guess that extra teaspoon won't hurt the birds or people wouldn't mix it like that.

[spirit wings]

I would look at the exp date and us it with in that time frame...I have only seen it in gallon jugs and that will last "forever"..so I would check it.